CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Double barrel namesWant to appear 'un-common'? Changing your name from an honest popular British one to a double barrelled combination to appear 'classy'.
Your friends and family will be so impressed they'll bow and curtsey in your presence.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 6:45, 1 reply)
What something like Arthur Foxx-Ayck?I like that one, might do it one day
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